724 NOCTTJIl?^. 



palpi at base, pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibi« and 

 the tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen white, the anal tuft tinged 

 with yellowish. Pore wing white ; a red-brown patch at base 

 with obliquely curved upper edge, leaving some white at base of 

 inner margin with the hyaline fovea above it ; the costal edge 

 brownish ; a broad obliquely curved olive-brown subterminal baud 

 from apex to tornus, met at upper angle of cell by an oblique 

 diifused yellowish bar from costa ; a fine dentate oblique white 

 postmedial line from vein 7 to inner margin with diffused silvery 

 blue marks before it, a curved brownish line before termen from 

 below apex to submedian fold ; a brown terminal line. Hind wing 

 white, the termen suffused with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside wholly white. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 d type. Exp. 32 millim. 



6093. Tarache expolita, (Plate CLXXI. fig. 6.) 



Tarache ex'polita, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 131 (18S2) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 298. 

 Acontia embolima, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 306, pi. 28. f. 17 



(1889). 



Head, tegulse, and prothorax in front white ; palpi at tips, a 

 baud across frous and antennae rufous ; thorax red- brown suffused 

 with leaden grey ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and tarsi 

 rufous ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with 

 rufous. Fore wing with the costal area yellowish white to near 

 apex, its lower edge sinuous, the rest of wing red-brown sufi'used 

 with silvery purple and with some olive below the costal area, a 

 yellowish white patch on termen from vein 5 to tornus with curved 

 inner edge ; antemedial line represented by a very faint oblique 

 yellow bar from costa and a slight erect dark line from submedian 

 fold to inner margin ; reniform elliptical, faintly defined by blackish 

 except above and with two oblique yellow striae to it from costa ; 

 a faint oblique medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line very indistinct, dark, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 represented bj slight olive-yellow marks on the white patch ; cilia 

 leaden grey on costal half, yellowish white on tornal half. Hind 

 wing white tinged with rufous especially on the veins and terminal 

 area; cilia yellowish white; the underside ochreous white. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Round Mt., Arizona, Prescott {Kunzc)., 2 (j' , 

 Huachuca Mts., 1 cS ; Mexico, N. Sonora {Morrison), 1 5 type 

 emholima, Godman-Salvin Coll. Hccj^. 24 millim. 



6094. Tarache lucasi. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 7.) 

 Aco7itia lucasi, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. See. xxvii. p. 68 (1900). 



c? . Head and thorax white, the metathorax puri)le grey ; palpi 

 at tips, frons and antennae reddish brown ; fore tibiae and tarsi 



